Imprisoned Hamas members end 2-week hunger strike
The senior leadership of Hamas prisoners said the prisoners have ended their hunger strike after receiving assurances from the Israel Prison Service to stop using cellphone jamming devices, but Israeli media portray the strike as having little effect.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — About 140 Hamas members incarcerated in Israel have suspended the hunger strike they were staging to protest the Israel Prison Service's installation of potentially cancer-causing devices to jam calls from cellphones that have been smuggled in to prisoners.
The situation escalated Sept. 10, when 23 Hamas inmates in Israel’s Ramon Prison staged an open-ended hunger strike. Their numbers later increased to 140 inmates in the Ramon, Nafha, Eshel, al-Naqab, Ofer, Megiddo and Gilboa prisons, including six members of Hamas’ senior leadership committee for prisoners.
